Game-Changing Smart Grid
Applications
Agenda
• What are the opportunities?
– Utility: intelligent distributed controls
– Consumer: energy savings
• Are utilities positioning themselves effectively
to take advantage of these opportunities?
• What are the hurdles and impediments?
Jeff Lund
Member, ESNA
ESNA, The Energy Service Network Association, is an association of
companies to promote the application of advanced energy management
systems, including AMR/AMM, based on the Networked Energy Services
(NES) smart grid infrastructure platform and to expand the interoperability
standard for utility networks NTA 8150. ESNA is comprised of utilities,
application designers, IT companies, hardware manufacturers and
consultants. www.esna.org
Michael Anderson
SVP, NES Sales and Market Development
Echelon Corporation
Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) is leading the worldwide
transformation of the electricity grid into a smart, communicating
energy network, connecting utilities to their customers, enabling
networking of everyday devices, and providing customers with energy
aware homes and businesses that react to conditions on the grid.
www.echelon.com
Claude Godin
President, Energy ICT
Founded in 1991 and recently acquired by Elster, Energy ICT provides
advanced energy monitoring and control systems to utilities and their
customers with over 400 systems installed:
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Largest AMI- US = DTE (2.8 million hourly electric , 1.2 million daily gas, 20 K C&I)
Largest AMI – Europe = EDF( 35 million 2-channel, ½ hour electric)
Largest MDMA = IMServ (+100,000 meters/150,000 channels read daily)
Largest EMS = Wal-Mart (3,500 stores - 21,000 meters)
Michael Murphy
Partner
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Pillsbury is an international law firm. Michael’s group specializes in the
acquisition of complex technologies and systems, including advanced metering,
smart grid and related technologies, back office systems, and related external
services. Pillsbury's legal services span the whole sourcing cycle from RFP
development through contract negotiations, technology licensing and the
protection of intellectual property rights. www.pillsburylaw.com.
Opportunity: Taking the Smart
Grid Beyond the Meter
There Is An Unmet Market Need
• Today’s AMI systems are closed
• AMI systems are meter-centric, not smartgrid-centric
ESNA is Filling This Market Need
• Making available a field-proven Open Smart
Grid Protocol (OSGP)
– Proven scalability and reliability in over 2 million
smart grid devices worldwide (meters and more)
• Promoting adoption of smart grid systems
and standards built on the OSGP standard
• Providing a certification process to assure
products comply with OSGP specifications
The crisis at the edge of the grid
U.S. utilities experience peak demand just 2% of the
year…but incur 15% of their annual costs on these
days
Outages have increased by 124% in the U.S. over the past two
decades
Developing countries' share of global electricity
demand is projected to jump from 27% in
2000 to 43% in 2030
There will be 1 million EV
chargers in the US by
2015
So far the Smart Grid has focused on metering
Smart meters are about demand shifting…
We Need the Smart Grid to Go Beyond Metering
Why does the neighborhood need
to be smart?
The Power of Open Control at the Edge of the Grid
Applications
Benefits
• Easily integrate AMR, AMI devices
• Monitor and control power quality
at the edge
• Manage and control deployment of
electric vehicle chargers and solar
panels
• Add neighborhood Volt/VAR control
• Easily add dynamic micro demand
response capabilities
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Fewer outages
Faster restorations
Greater efficiency
Better security
Lower operating costs and
CAPEX
 Happier customers
 A cleaner environment
Opportunity: Energy Savings
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Critical steps
Energy savings value chain
Feasible activities and payback
Implementation barriers
Key dimensions along value chain
Feasible energy savings activity
Source: Driving the adoption of metering, monitoring, & targeting in the UK (2004) Carbon Trust of the UK
Barriers to Metering, Monitoring & Targeting
Typical End Customer Instrumentation
Forecasting & Performance Monitoring
Demand Response
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Requires use of sophisticated work flow engine for EMS dispatch
Automated polling of ISO/utility price and scheduling systems
Load forecasting and baseline calculations used in calculating risk position
Continuous Commissioning
Performance Dashboards
Utility Implementations
• Are utilities positioning themselves to take
advantage of these opportunities?
• What are the major hurdles and
impediments?